A 750 GeV dark matter messenger at the Galactic Center

Abstract

The first data from the LHC Run-2 have shown a possible excess in diphoton events with invariant mass $\sim 750$ GeV, suggesting the existence of a new resonance which may decay dominantly into dark matter (DM) particles. We show in a simple model that the reported diphoton excess at the LHC is consistent with another photon excess, the $2$ GeV excess in cosmic gamma-ray fluxes towards the Galactic Center observed by the Fermi-LAT. Both the excesses can be simultaneously explained by a $\sim 60$ GeV scalar DM particle annihilating dominantly into two gluons with a typical thermal annihilation cross section, which leads to the prediction of a large width to mass ratio $\Gamma /M\approx \mathcal{O}(10^{-2})$ of the resonance. The upper limit on the dijet search at LHC Run-1 leads to a $lower$ limit on the predicted cross section for DM annihilating into $\gamma \gamma$ final states $\langleσv\rangle_{γγ} \gtrsim\mathcal{O}(10^{-30})~\mbox{cm}^{3}\mbox{s}^{-1}$. Both the predictions can be tested by the LHC, Fermi-LAT and future experiments.

arXiv comment7 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in PRD

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